BILL NUMBER: SB 1350	CHAPTERED  09/19/00

	CHAPTER   506
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 19, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 17, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 28, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 23, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 21, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JULY 6, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JUNE 26, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JUNE 13, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 16, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   FEBRUARY 28, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Local Government (Senators Rainey
(Chair), Johannessen, Johnston, Monteith, Perata, Polanco, and Soto)

                        JANUARY 12, 2000

   An act to amend Sections 14482 and 14483 of the Business and
Professions Code, to repeal Section 1279 of the Code of Civil
Procedure, to amend Section 18025 of the Education Code, to amend
Sections 3102, 3105, 6523.5, 6523.6, 6523.7, 15365.30, 23119, 23130,
23212, 23285, 29321, 36501, 51283.4, 54988, 61737.05, 65400, 66412,
66451.17, 66463.5, and 66499.19 of, to amend and renumber Section
6523.75 of, to add Section 6500.1 to, to repeal Section 16153 of, to
repeal Division 2 (commencing with Section 60400) of Title 6 of, and
to repeal and add Article 7 (commencing with Section 51296) of
Chapter 7 of Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 5 of, the Government Code,
to repeal Division 36 (commencing with Section 56000) of the Health
and Safety Code, to amend Sections 3211.92 and 3211.93a of the Labor
Code, to amend Section 26593 of the Public Resources Code, to amend
Section 21670 of the Public Utilities Code, to amend Sections 10 and
10.2 of the County Water Authority Act (Chapter 545 of the Statutes
of 1943), and to repeal Section 901 of the Pajaro River Watershed
Flood Prevention Authority Act (Chapter 963 of the Statutes of 1999),
relating to local agencies.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1350, Committee on Local Government.  Local Government Omnibus
Act of 2000.
   (1) Existing law provides for the registration of laundry marks by
filing a description of the mark in the offices of the Secretary of
State and the county clerk, and publishing a description of the mark
in the county where the description was filed.
   This bill would delete the provision for filing with the county
clerk and change the required place of publication to the county
where the principal place of business is located.
   (2) Existing law requires a certified copy of a court decree
changing a person's name to be filed in the office of the county
clerk where the person lives.
   This bill would delete that provision.
   (3) Existing law requires the State Librarian to determine
annually the amount of support for each public library and requires
the amount appropriated to be based on the total amount of revenues
previously received, and authorizes local agencies to waive that
amount, as specified.
   This bill would authorize local agencies to request from the State
Librarian a specified waiver of the requirements as to the amount
appropriated commencing with the 2000-01 fiscal year.
   (4) Existing law requires the oath or affirmation of a disaster
service worker of a county to be filed in the office of the county
clerk, or, in certain instances, to be filed with the county auditor
or the clerk of the board of supervisors.
   This bill would delete the provisions relating to filing with the
county auditor or the board of supervisors, authorize the filing to
be in the official department personnel file of the worker, and
authorize the oath to be destroyed after 5 years.
   (5) Existing law establishes the California Central Valley
International Trade Center in Tulare County to coordinate and work
with ongoing international trade efforts in specified counties.
   This bill would add Merced County to those counties.
   (6) Existing law specifies the boundaries of Los Angeles County
and Orange County.
   This bill would revise those boundary specifications, as
prescribed.
   (7) Existing law provides that when a county boundary is changed,
the boards of supervisors of the affected counties shall file with
the State Board of Equalization and the assessors of the affected
counties before the following January 1 certain documents concerning
the new boundaries.
   This bill would change that date to December 1.
   (8) Existing law authorizes a board of supervisors to establish a
revolving fund not to exceed $100,000 for use by any county officer.

   This bill would increase that amount to $250,000.
   (9) Existing law provides that the government of a general law
city is vested in certain officers, including a city council of 5
members.
   This bill would provide that the city council consists of at least
5 members.
   (10) Existing law provides procedures for the cancellation or
nullification of contracts that establish agricultural preserves and
for the rescission of those contracts in order to place the land
under a farmland security zone contract.
   This bill would recodify and make technical, nonsubstantive
changes in the provisions governing the procedures for the
establishment and cancellation of farmland security zone contracts.

   (11) Existing law requires a city or county to provide specified
notice of a proposed lien for costs incurred in abating a nuisance.
   This bill would require the notice to be mailed by certified mail
to the last known address of the property owner.
   (12) Existing law requires a community services district to
approve various claims and demands by majority vote in an open
meeting.
   This bill would authorize certain warrants for claims and demands
to be approved by the finance officer and ratified by the district
board after payment.
   (13) Existing law establishes procedures for the formation and
conduct of the Rossmoor Special Community Services District.
   This bill would repeal that law.
   (14) Existing law requires the legislative body of a city or
county to submit an annual report on the status of the general plan
and progress in its implementation to various agencies on or before
July 1 of each year.
   This bill instead would require that the housing portion of that
report be submitted to those agencies on or before October 1 of each
year.
   (15) Under existing law, when a local agency approves a vesting
tentative map, that approval confers a vested right to proceed with
the development in substantial compliance with specified ordinances,
policies, and standards.
   This bill would correct an obsolete reference to provisions
relating to vesting tentative maps.
   (16) The Urban Development Incentive Act provides for the planning
and expedited permitting of large scale urban developments.
   This bill would repeal those provisions.
   (17) Under existing law, geologic hazard districts may borrow
money from public agencies.
   This bill would authorize those districts to borrow money from
private sources.
   (18) Existing law requires cities and counties to conform their
general plans to the comprehensive land use plan of an airport land
use commission.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to clarify
that special districts are also subject to that plan.
   (19) Existing law does not provide a procedure to transfer a
Mello-Roos Community Facilities District from a county to a special
district.
   This bill would authorize Riverside County to transfer the
governance of a community facilities district to the Rancho
California Water District.
   (20) The bill would also delete obsolete provisions and make
various clarifying, conforming, and other changes relating to, among
other things, joint exercise of powers agreements, farmland
preservation, subdivisions, redevelopment, and flood control.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  (a) This act shall be known and may be cited as the
Local Government Omnibus Act of 2000.
   (b) The Legislature finds and declares that Californians desire
their government to be run efficiently and economically, and that
public officials should avoid waste and duplication whenever
possible.  The Legislature further finds and declares that it desires
to control its own operating costs by reducing the number of
separate bills.  Therefore, it is the intent of the Legislature in
enacting this act to combine several minor, noncontroversial
statutory changes relating to local agencies into a single measure.
  SEC. 2.  Section 14482 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   14482.  In order to register a name, mark or device under this
article, the supplier shall do all of the following:
   (a) File in the office of the Secretary of State a description of
the names, marks, or devices so used.
   (b) Cause the description of the name, mark or device to be
printed once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper
published in the county in which the principal place of business of
the supplier is located.
  SEC. 3.  Section 14483 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   14483.  The registrant shall pay to the Secretary of State for
filing each laundry supply designation described and for issuing a
certificate of filing a fee as set forth in subdivision (e) of
Section 12193 of the Government Code.
  SEC. 4.  Section 1279 of the Code of Civil Procedure is repealed.

  SEC. 5.  Section 18025 of the Education Code is amended to read:
   18025.  (a) For the 1982-83 fiscal year and each fiscal year
thereafter, the State Librarian shall determine the amount to which
each public library is entitled for support of the library during the
fiscal year.  The amount shall be equal to 10 percent of the cost of
the foundation program as determined pursuant to Section 18022.
   (b) If local revenues appropriated for a public library for the
1982-83 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, including tax
revenues made available under Chapter 282 of the Statutes of 1979,
total less than 90 percent of the cost of the foundation program as
determined pursuant to Section 18022, the state allocation for that
fiscal year shall be reduced proportionately.  A proportional
reduction in the state allocation as described in this subdivision
shall not be made, however, commencing with the 1997-98 fiscal year
and each fiscal year thereafter, if the amount appropriated to the
Public Library Fund for that fiscal year is equal to or greater than
the amount necessary to fund each public library in the amount it
received for the prior fiscal year, thus providing the state's share
of the cost of the foundation program to each library based only on
its population served, as certified by the State Librarian.  After
the first fiscal year in which the proportional reduction is not
made, no further reductions based on this subdivision shall be made
in any future fiscal year.  It is the intent of this subdivision to
make this change without harm to any library currently receiving an
unreduced share of the state's cost of the foundation program.
   (c) If local revenues appropriated for a public library for the
1982-83 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, including tax
revenues made available under the provisions of Chapter 282 of the
Statutes of 1979, total more than 90 percent of the cost of the
foundation program as determined pursuant to Section 18022, the state
allocation for that fiscal year shall remain at 10 percent of the
cost of the foundation program as determined pursuant to Section
18022.
   (d) In order for a public library to receive state funds under
this chapter in the 1983-84 fiscal year and any fiscal year
thereafter, the total amount of local revenues appropriated for the
public library for that fiscal year, including tax revenues made
available under Chapter 282 of the Statutes of 1979 and other
revenues deemed to be local revenues according to Section 18023,
shall be equal to at least the total amount of local revenues, as
defined, appropriated for the public library in the previous fiscal
year.  State funds provided under this chapter shall supplement, but
not supplant, local revenues appropriated for the public library.
   (e) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (d), or any other provision of
law, in the 1993-94 fiscal year, any city, county, district, or city
and county, that reduces local revenues appropriated for the public
library for the 1993-94 fiscal year shall continue to receive state
funds appropriated under this chapter for the 1993-94 fiscal year
only, provided that the amount of the reduction to the appropriation
to that public library for the 1993-94 fiscal year is no more than 20
percent of the 1992-93 fiscal year appropriation made to that public
library as certified by the fiscal officer of the public library and
transmitted to the State Librarian pursuant to Section 18023.
   (2) Commencing with the 1993-94 fiscal year, and each fiscal year
thereafter, any city, county, district, or city and county may
request from the State Librarian a waiver of the requirements of
subdivision (d) or of paragraph (1) by demonstrating that the
percentage of the reduction in local revenues appropriated for the
public library is no greater than the percentage of the reduction of
local revenues received by the city, county, district, or city and
county operating the public library as a result of changes made to
Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 95) of Part 0.5 of the Revenue and
Taxation Code by statutes enacted during or after the 1991-92
Regular Session having the effect of shifting property tax revenues
from cities, counties, special districts, and redevelopment agencies
to school districts and community colleges.  Requests for the waiver
and the substantiating documentation shall be submitted to the State
Librarian along with the annual report of appropriation required by
Section 18023 or any other report of appropriations applying to
public libraries required by any other provision of law.
   (3) Commencing with the 1997-98 fiscal year, and each fiscal year
thereafter, any city, county, district, or city and county may
request from the State Librarian a waiver of the requirements of
subdivision (d) by demonstrating that the percentage of reduction in
local revenues appropriated for the public library is no greater than
the percentage of reduction of local revenues received by the city,
county, district, or city and county operating the public library as
a result of the addition of Article XIIID, otherwise known as the
Right to Vote on Taxes Act, to the California Constitution as
approved by the voters at the November 5, 1996, general election.
Requests for the waiver and the substantiating documentation shall be
submitted to the State Librarian along with the annual report of
appropriation required by Section 18023 or any other report of
appropriations applying to public libraries required by any other
provision of law.
   (4) Commencing with the 2000-01 fiscal year, and each fiscal year
thereafter, any city, county, district, or city and county may
request from the State Librarian a waiver of the requirements of
subdivision (d) or of paragraph (1) by demonstrating that the
reduction in local revenues appropriated for the public library is no
greater than the reduction in local revenues received by the city,
county, district, or city and county operating the public library as
a result of the automatic termination of a locally approved special
tax or benefit assessment for that public library.  Requests for the
waiver and substantiating documentation shall be submitted to the
State Librarian along with the annual report of appropriation
required by Section 18023 or any other report of appropriations
applying to public libraries required by any other provision of law.

   (f) If the state allocations computed pursuant to this section
exceed the total amount of funds appropriated for purposes of this
section in any fiscal year, the State Librarian shall adjust on a pro
rata basis public library allocations prescribed by this section so
that the total amount in each fiscal year does not exceed this
amount.
  SEC. 6.  Section 3102 of the Government Code is amended to read:
   3102.  (a) All disaster service workers shall, before they enter
upon the duties of their employment, take and subscribe to the oath
or affirmation required by this chapter.
   (b) In the case of intermittent, temporary, emergency or
successive employments, then in the discretion of the employing
agency, an oath taken and subscribed as required by this chapter
shall be effective for the purposes of this chapter for all
successive periods of employment which commence within one calendar
year from the date of that subscription.
   (c) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), the oath taken and subscribed
by a person who is a member of an emergency organization sanctioned
by a state agency or an accredited disaster council, whose members
are duly enrolled or registered with the Office of Emergency
Services, or any accredited disaster council of any political
subdivision, shall be effective for the period the person remains a
member with that organization.
  SEC. 7.  Section 3105 of the Government Code is amended to read:
   3105.  (a) The oath or affirmation of any disaster service worker
of the state shall be filed as prescribed by State Personnel Board
rule within 30 days of the date on which it is taken and subscribed.

   (b) The oath or affirmation of any disaster service worker of any
county shall be filed in the office of the county clerk of the county
or in the official department personnel file of the county employee
who is designated as a disaster service worker.  The oath may be
destroyed without duplication five years after the termination of the
employee's employment by the county.
   (c) The oath or affirmation of any disaster service worker of any
city shall be filed in the office of the city clerk of the city.
   (d) The oath or affirmation of any disaster service worker of any
other agency or district shall be filed with any officer or employee
of the agency or district that may be designated by the agency or
district.
  SEC. 8.  Section 6500.1 is added to the Government Code, to read:
   6500.1.  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Joint
Exercise of Powers Act.
  SEC. 9.  Section 6523.5 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   6523.5.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a
private, nonprofit hospital in the County of Contra Costa may enter
into a joint powers agreement with a public agency, as defined in
Section 6500.
  SEC. 10.  Section 6523.6 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   6523.6.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter,
a private, nonprofit hospital in the County of Tulare may enter into
a joint powers agreement with a public agency, as defined in Section
6500.
   (b) Nonprofit hospitals and public agencies participating in a
joint powers agreement entered into pursuant to subdivision (a) shall
not reduce or eliminate any emergency services, as a result of that
agreement, following the creation of the joint powers authority
without a public hearing by the authority.  The joint powers
authority shall provide public notice of the hearing to the
communities served by the authority not less than 14 days prior to
the hearing and the notice shall contain a description of the
proposed reductions or changes.
   (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to grant any power
to any nonprofit hospital that participates in an agreement
authorized under this section to levy any tax or assessment.  Nothing
in this section shall permit any entity, other than a nonprofit
hospital corporation or a public agency, to participate as a party to
an agreement authorized under this section.
  SEC. 11.  Section 6523.7 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   6523.7.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter,
a private, nonprofit hospital in the County of Kings may enter into a
joint powers agreement with a public agency, as defined in Section
6500.
   (b) Nonprofit hospitals and public agencies participating in a
joint powers agreement entered into pursuant to subdivision (a) shall
not reduce or eliminate any emergency services, as a result of that
agreement, following the creation of the joint powers authority
without a public hearing by the authority.  The joint powers
authority shall provide public notice of the hearing to the
communities served by the authority not less than 14 days prior to
the hearing and the notice shall contain a description of the
proposed reductions or changes.
   (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to grant any power
to any nonprofit hospital that participates in an agreement
authorized under this section to levy any tax or assessment.  Nothing
in this section shall permit any entity, other than a nonprofit
hospital corporation or a public agency, to participate as a party to
an agreement authorized under this section.
  SEC. 12.  Section 6523.75 of the Government Code is amended and
renumbered to read:
   6523.9.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter,
a nonprofit hospital in the County of San Diego may enter into a
joint powers agreement with any public agency, as defined in Section
6500.
   (b) Nonprofit hospitals and public agencies participating in a
joint powers agreement entered into pursuant to subdivision (a) shall
not reduce or eliminate any emergency services, as a result of that
agreement, following the creation of the joint powers authority
without a public hearing by the authority.
   (c) The joint powers authority shall provide public notice of the
hearing to the communities served by the authority not less than 14
days prior to the hearing and the notice shall contain a description
of the proposed reductions or changes.
   (d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to grant any power
to any nonprofit hospital that participates in an agreement
authorized under this section to levy any tax or assessment.  Nothing
in this section shall permit any entity, other than a nonprofit
hospital corporation or a public agency, to participate as a party to
an agreement authorized under this section.
  SEC. 13.  Section 15365.30 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   15365.30.  (a) The California Central Valley International Trade
Center in Tulare County has been created for the purpose of assisting
Central Valley businesses interested in expanding their markets.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Central Valley
International Trade Center in Tulare County coordinate and work
cooperatively with other ongoing international trade efforts in the
Central Valley, including the Counties of Fresno, Kern, Kings,
Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tulare.
  SEC. 14.  Section 16153 of the Government Code is repealed.
  SEC. 15.  Section 23119 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   23119.  The boundaries of Los Angeles County are as follows:
   Beginning at a point in the southwesterly boundary line of the
State of California, said point being on the southerly prolongation
of the westerly boundary line of Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit; thence
northerly along said prolongation and westerly line of said rancho
to the northwesterly corner thereof; thence northeasterly in a direct
line to corner number seven of the boundary of Rancho Simi; thence
easterly along line number seven, northerly along line number eight,
easterly along line number nine of the boundary of Rancho Simi to
corner number ten of the boundary of Rancho Simi; thence following
the boundary line as surveyed by E. T. Wright and J. T. Stow, county
surveyors, in June and July, 1881, as shown on map recorded in book
43, page 25 et seq., miscellaneous records of Los Angeles County as
follows:  north 105.01 chains to a point; thence north 07 degrees 29
minutes W., 157.50 chains to a point; thence north 21 degrees 57
minutes W., to a point in the north line of Sec. 4, T. 8 N., R. 19
W., S. B. M., distant westerly along said north line 1,400 feet, more
or less, from the northeast corner of said Sec. 4, said point being
common to the boundaries of Kern, Ventura and Los Angeles; thence
east along the north line of T. 8 N., S. B. M., to the northeast
corner of T. 8 N., R. 8 W., S. B. M., said corner being a point
common to the boundaries of San Bernardino, Kern, and Los Angeles;
   Thence south along the range line between R. 7 and 8 W., to the
southeast corner of T. 6 N., R. 8 W., S. B. M.; thence east along the
township line between T. 5 and 6 N., to the northeast corner of T. 5
N., R. 8 W., S. B. M.; thence south along the range line between R.
7 and 8 W., to a point in the east line of Sec. 12, T. 4 N., R. 8 W.,
S. B. M., distant southerly 940 feet, measured along said east line,
from the northeast corner of said Sec. 12; thence southerly in a
direct line to the summit of San Antonio Peak; thence southerly along
a straight line which passes through the northwest corner of the
Rancho Cucamonga to a point in said straight line distant south 11*51'
04 west thereon, 333.81 feet from its intersection with the north
line of Tract 37, T. 2 N., R. 7 W., S. B. M.; thence north 25*38'59
west, 15.06 feet; thence south 70*15'29 west, 47.76 feet; thence
south 09*57'30 east, 62.51 feet; thence south 34*17'02 east, 36.94
feet to said straight line; thence continuing southerly along said
straight line to a point in said straight line distant north 11*51'04
east, 547.37 feet from its intersection with the south line of said
Tract 37; thence south 84*57'02 west, 35.25 feet; thence south 23*47'
27 west, 75.70 feet to the beginning of a nontangent curve concave to
the southwest having a radius of 181.00 feet and to which beginning
a radial line bears south 29*24'24 west; thence southeasterly along
said curve through a central angle of 12*08'32 an arc distance of
38.36 feet to the beginning of a reverse curve concave to the
northeast having a radius of 169.00 feet; thence southeasterly 16.07
feet along said curve through a central angle of 05*26'52 to said
straight line; thence southwest in a direct line to the northwest
corner of Rancho Cucamonga, thence southwesterly along the
northwesterly boundary line of Rancho Cucamonga to the most westerly
corner of Rancho Cucamonga; thence southwesterly in a direct line to
the northeast corner of Rancho San Jose; thence southwesterly and
westerly along the easterly and southerly boundary lines of Rancho
San Jose to the range line between R. 8 and 9 W. in T. 2 S., S. B.
M.;
   Thence south along the range line between R. 8 and 9 W., to the
southeast corner of Sec. 12, T. 2 S., R. 9 W., S. B. M., said corner
being an angle point in the boundary line of the Rancho Santa Ana del
Chino; thence westerly, southwesterly, southerly, easterly, and
southerly along the boundary line of the Rancho Santa Ana del Chino
to the southwest corner of the Rancho Santa Ana del Chino, said
corner being the center of Sec. 35, T. 2 S., R. 9 W., S. B.  M.;
thence southeasterly in a straight line to a point in the south line
of Sec. 36, T. 2 S., R. 9 W., S. B. M., distant 52.84 feet easterly
thereon from the southwest corner of said Sec. 36, said point being
common to the boundaries of San Bernardino, Orange, and Los Angeles;
thence westerly along the northern line of Orange to the
southeasterly corner of Tract No. 46685 filed in Book 1209, pages 56
and 57, of Maps, in the office of the Recorder of the County of Los
Angeles, said southeasterly corner being common to the boundaries of
Orange and Los Angeles; thence northerly following along the boundary
of said Tract No. 46685, the following courses:  north 13*53'07 east
100.12 feet, north 76*01'25 west 1018.58 feet, north 85*34'56 west
163.25 feet, and south 00*57'29 west 47.01 feet to a point in the
northerly line of Tract No. 25335, filed in Book 775, pages 35 and
36, of said Maps, said point distant westerly along said northerly
line 10.26 feet from the northeasterly corner of said Tract No.
25335; thence northwesterly following along the boundary of said
Tract No. 25335 the following courses:  north 76*00'59 west 1224.52
feet and south 00*52'39 west 564.75 feet to a point on the boundary
common to Orange and Los Angeles; thence westerly along the northern
line of Orange to the southwesterly boundary line of the State of
California; thence northwesterly along the southwesterly boundary
line of the State of California to the point of beginning.  Also the
islands of Santa Catalina and San Clemente.
  SEC. 16.  Section 23130 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   23130.  The boundaries of Orange County are as follows:
   Beginning at the northwest corner of San Diego County at a point
in the Pacific Ocean opposite San Mateo point; thence northerly along
the San Diego County line to the southerly line of the Rancho
Mission Viejo as shown on the survey on file in book 8, pages 34
through 46 inclusive of Records of Survey in the office of the County
Recorder of Orange County;
   Thence, easterly and northeasterly to an angle point therein, said
point being Rancho Mission Viejo Corner No. 7, as shown on said
Record of Survey; thence northerly 12,693.95 feet along the
northwestern boundary of San Diego County to the southwest corner of
Section 33, T. 7 S., R. 6 W., said point being also the most
southwest corner of Riverside County; thence northerly 1,324.46 feet
along the western boundary of said Riverside County to the
southwesterly corner of Government Lot 3, Fractional Section 33, T. 7
S., R. 6 W., S.B.M., as shown on that survey on file in book 122,
pages 17 and 18 of Records of Survey in the office of the County
Recorder of Orange County;
   Thence leaving said western boundary south 89*25'11 east, 2,042.68
feet to the southeast corner of the NE. 1/4 of the SE. 1/4 of said
Section 33; thence north 01*00'50 east, 1,320.33 feet to the
northeast corner of the NE. 1/4 of the SE. 1/4 of said Section 33;
thence north 00*27'14 east, 2,647.46 feet to the northeast corner of
said Section 33; thence along the north line of said section north
89*16'14 west, 2,086.39 feet to the northwest corner of Government
Lot 1 of said section, being a point on the existing western boundary
of said Riverside County;
   Thence along said boundary of Riverside County northerly,
northeasterly, northwesterly, westerly, northerly, westerly and
northwesterly to a point on the south line of Section 36, T. 3 S., R.
8 W., as shown on that survey on file in book 131, pages 24 and 25
of Records of Survey in the office of the Orange County Recorder,
said point lying distant therein north 89*05'38 west 151.58 feet from
the southeast corner of said Section 36;
   Thence leaving said existing boundary of Riverside County and
along said south line north 89*05'38 west, 2,484.00 feet; thence
continuing along said south line, north 89*07'27 west, 818.46 feet to
the easterly line of the Rancho Lomas de Santiago; thence along said
easterly line north 02*53'27 west, 3,273.18 feet to a point on a
nontangent curve, concave to the northwest and having a radius of
1,550.00 feet, a radial from said point bears north 14*05'30 west;
thence easterly, leaving said east line, along said curve through a
central angle of 15*01'17 and arc length of 406.35 feet; thence
nontangent to said curve, south 84*32'29 east, 155.61 feet; thence
north 65*40'06 east, 75.15 feet; thence north 48*16'56 east, 150.70
feet; thence north 68*49'57 east, 35.37 feet to said existing
boundary of Riverside County;
   Thence northwesterly along the said boundary to the corner common
to Riverside, San Bernardino, and Orange Counties; thence
northwesterly along the southwest boundary of San Bernardino County
to the point of intersection of said boundary with the southerly line
of T. 2 S., R. 9 W., being also the corner common to San Bernardino
and Los Angeles Counties; thence westerly along the township line
between T. 2 and 3 S., to the northeast corner of Annexation 69-1
(Ryness-Smith No. 2) to the City of Brea, said point also being the
southeast corner of Tract No. 46685, per map filed in Book 1209,
pages 56 and 57, of Maps, in the office of the Recorder of the County
of Los Angeles, being distant north 89*00'53 west, 1670.40 feet from
the northeast corner of Section 3, Township 3 South, Range 10 West;
thence, leaving the Township line between T. 2 and 3 S., along the
boundary line of said Tract No. 46685, the following courses: north
13*53'07 east, along the easterly line of said Tract, 100.12 feet to
the northeast corner thereof; thence, north 76*01'25 west, along the
northeasterly line of said Tract, 1018.58 feet to the easterly
terminus of that course shown as "north 86*32'58 west, 163.32 feet"
on said Tract; thence, north 85*34'56 west, along the northerly line
of said Tract, 163.25 feet to the northwest corner thereof; thence,
south 00*57'29 west, along the most westerly line of said Tract,
47.01 feet, to the northeasterly boundary line of Tract No. 25335,
per map filed in Book 775, pages 35 and 36, of Maps, in the office of
the Recorder of the County of Los Angeles, said point being north
76*00'59 west, along said northeasterly line 10.26 feet, from the
northeast corner of said Tract; thence along the boundary of said
Tract No. 25335, the following courses:  north 76*00'59 west, along
said northeasterly line of said Tract, 1224.52 feet to the northwest
corner thereof; thence south 00*52'39 west, along the westerly line
of said Tract, 564.75 feet to the southwest corner of said Tract,
being a point of intersection with the Township line between T. 2 and
3 S., distant south 89*00'53 east, 1449.86 feet from the northwest
corner of said Section 3, Township 3 South, Range 10 West; thence,
leaving said boundary of Tract No. 25335, westerly along the Township
line between T. 2 and 3 S., to the corner common to T. 2 and 3 S.,
R. 10 and 11 W.; thence southerly along the range line between R.  10
and 11 W., to the southeast corner of Section 13, T. 3 S., R. 11 W.,
in the Rancho Los Coyotes; thence in a general southwesterly
direction along section lines, quarter section lines and quarter
quarter section lines in the Rancho Los Coyotes, as follows:
westerly along the section line to the quarter corner on the south
line of said Section 13; thence southerly along the quarter section
line to the center of Section 24, T. 3 S., R. 11 W.; thence westerly
along the quarter section line to the quarter corner on the west line
of said Section 24; thence southerly along the section line to the
southwest corner of said Section 24; thence westerly along
                                the section line to the quarter
corner on the north line of Section 26, T. 3 S., R. 11 W.; thence
southerly along the quarter section line to the center of said
Section 26;
   Thence westerly along the quarter section line to the quarter
corner on the west line of said Section 26; thence southerly along
the section line to the southwest corner of said Section 26; thence
westerly along the section line to the northeast corner of Section
33, T. 3 S., R. 11 W.; thence southerly along the section line to the
quarter corner on the east line of said Section 33; thence westerly
along the quarter section line to the center of said Section 33;
thence southerly along the quarter section line to the northeast
corner of the SE. 1/4 of the SW. 1/4 of said Section 33; thence
westerly along the quarter quarter section line to the center of the
SW. 1/4 of said Section 33; thence southerly along the quarter
quarter section line to the south line of said Section 33; thence
westerly along the township line between T. 3 and 4 S., to the
northeast corner of Section 5, T. 4 S., R. 11 W.; thence southerly
along the section line to the northeast corner of the SE. 1/4 of said
Section 5; thence westerly along the quarter section line to the
northwest corner of the NE. 1/4 of the SE. 1/4 of said Section 5;
thence southerly along the quarter quarter section line to the center
of the SE. 1/4 of said Section 5; thence westerly along the quarter
quarter section line to the westerly line of the SE. 1/4 of said
Section 5; thence southerly along the quarter section line to the
quarter corner on the south line of said Section 5; thence westerly
along the section line to the northeast corner of the NW. 1/4 of the
NW. 1/4 of Section 8, T. 4 S., R. 11 W.;
   Thence southerly along the quarter quarter section lines to the
northeast corner of the SW. 1/4 of the SW. 1/4 of said Section 8;
thence southwesterly in a straight line to a point on the south line
of the Moody Creek Channel as shown on that survey on file in book
120, page 5 of Records of Survey in the office of the Recorder of
Orange County, said point being on a nontangent curve, concave
southeasterly and having a radius of 950.00 feet, a radial from said
point bears south 03*41'24 east; thence westerly along said south
line and said curve through a central angle of 26*34'39 and an arc
length of 440.67 feet to its point of intersection with the east line
of the Coyote Creek Channel, said point being on a nontangent curve
concave northwesterly and having a radius of 5,200.00 feet, a radial
from said point bears north 75*11'46 west; thence southwesterly along
said easterly line and said curve through a central angle of 03*10'
38 and an arc length of 288.36 feet; thence continuing along said
easterly line, tangent to said curve, south 17*58'52 west, 132.27
feet to a point on the existing boundary of Los Angeles County;
thence southwesterly along said boundary in a straight line to the
southwest corner of Section 8, T. 4 S., R.  11 W. said corner also
being Los Angeles/Orange County Corner No. 11 as shown on Los Angeles
County Surveyor's Map No. 8175 on file in the office of the Surveyor
of the County of Los Angeles;
   Thence south 00*11'50 east, along the section line to a point on
the boundary line between Rancho Los Coyotes and Rancho Los Alamitos,
said point also being Los Angeles/Orange County Corner No. 10;
   Thence south 59*07'40 west, a distance of 3,391.48 feet to Los
Angeles/Orange County Corner No. 9;
   Thence south 39*48'20 west, a distance of 5,650.97 feet to Los
Angeles/Orange County Corner No. 8;
   Thence south 11*36'55 west, a distance of 2,241.41 feet to Los
Angeles/Orange County Corner No. 7;
   Thence south 27*55'55 west, a distance of 8,375.40 feet to Los
Angeles/Orange County Corner No. 6;
   Thence south 31*22'50 east, a distance of 1,296.21 feet to Los
Angeles/Orange County Corner No. 5;
   Thence south 27*12'00 east, a distance of 2,106.10 feet to Los
Angeles/Orange County Corner No. 4;
   Thence south 16*46'45 east, a distance of 1,444.82 feet to Los
Angeles/Orange County Corner No. 3;
   Thence south 2*48'35 east, a distance of 2,207.94 feet to Los
Angeles/Orange County Corner No. 2;
   Thence south 57*10'40 west, a distance of 8,238.78 feet to Los
Angeles/Orange County Corner No. 1;
   Thence south 33*00'00 west, a distance of 622.43 feet to a point
on the northeasterly line of block 59, Alamitos Bay tract, as shown
on the map recorded in map book 5, page 137, on file in the office of
the Recorder of the County of Los Angeles, distant thereon south
57*50'45 east, a distance of 428.91 feet from the most northerly
corner of said block 59; thence continuing south 33*00'00 west, a
distance of three miles, more or less to the southwesterly boundary
line of the State of California (the boundary line between Los
Angeles and Orange hereinabove described and established being shown
on said county surveyor's map No. 8175; and likewise on map No. 300
on file in the office of the Surveyor of Orange County); thence
southeasterly along the state line to the point of beginning.
  SEC. 17.  Section 23212 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   23212.  When a county boundary is changed pursuant to this
article, the boards of supervisors of the affected counties shall
file before the following December 1, with the State Board of
Equalization and with the assessors of the affected counties, a
statement setting forth the legal description of the boundary, as
changed, together with a map or plat indicating the boundary.  The
change of the boundary shall not be effective for purposes of
assessment or taxation unless the statement, together with the map or
plat is filed with the assessors and the State Board of Equalization
on or before December 1 of the year immediately preceding the year
in which the assessments or taxes are to be levied.
  SEC. 18.  Section 23285 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   23285.  Whenever county boundaries are changed pursuant to this
article, the board of supervisors of both affected counties shall
cause to be filed before the following December 1, with the State
Board of Equalization and with the assessors of both affected
counties, a statement setting forth the legal description of the
boundaries, as changed, together with a map or plat indicating those
boundaries.  The change of the boundaries shall not be effective for
purposes of assessment or taxation unless the statement, together
with the map or plat required by this section, is filed with the
county assessors and with the State Board of Equalization on or
before December 1 of the year immediately preceding the year in which
the assessments or taxes are to be levied.
  SEC. 19.  Section 29321 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   29321.  The board of supervisors may establish a revolving fund
for the use of any officer of the county by adopting a resolution
setting forth:  (a)  the necessity for the fund, (b) the office,
department, service, or institution for which the fund is available,
and (c) the amount of the fund, which shall not exceed two hundred
fifty thousand dollars ($250,000).
  SEC. 20.  Section 36501 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   36501.  The government of a general law city is vested in:
   (a) A city council of at least five members.
   (b) A city clerk.
   (c) A city treasurer.
   (d) A chief of police.
   (e) A fire chief.
   (f) Any subordinate officers or employees provided by law.
  SEC. 21.  Section 51283.4 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   51283.4.  (a) Upon tentative approval of a petition accompanied by
a proposal for a specified alternative use of the land, the clerk of
the board or council shall record in the office of the county
recorder of the county in which is located the land as to which the
contract is applicable a certificate of tentative cancellation, which
shall set forth the name of the landowner requesting the
cancellation, the fact that a certificate of cancellation of contract
will be issued and recorded at the time that specified conditions
and contingencies are satisfied, a description of the conditions and
contingencies which must be satisfied, and a legal description of the
property.  Conditions to be satisfied shall include payment in full
of the amount of the fee computed under the provisions of Section
51283, together with a statement that unless the fee is paid, or a
certificate of cancellation of contract is issued within one year
from the date of the recording of the certificate of tentative
cancellation, the fee shall be recomputed as of the date of notice
described in subdivision (b).  Any provisions related to the waiver
of the fee or portion thereof shall be treated in the manner provided
for in the certificate of tentative cancellation.  Contingencies to
be satisfied shall include a requirement that the landowner obtain
all permits necessary to commence the project.  The board or council
may, at the request of the landowner, amend a tentatively approved
specified alternative use if it finds that the amendment is
consistent with the findings made pursuant to subdivision (a) of
Section 51282.
   (b) The landowner shall notify the board or council when he or she
has satisfied the conditions and contingencies enumerated in the
certificate of tentative cancellation.  Within 30 days of receipt of
the notice, and upon a determination that the conditions and
contingencies have been satisfied, the board or council shall execute
a certificate of cancellation of contract and cause the same to be
recorded.
   (c) If the landowner has been unable to satisfy the conditions and
contingencies enumerated in the certificate of tentative
cancellation, the landowner shall notify the board or council of the
particular conditions or contingencies he or she is unable to
satisfy.  Within 30 days of receipt of the notice, and upon a
determination that the landowner is unable to satisfy the conditions
and contingencies listed, the board or council shall execute a
certificate of withdrawal of tentative approval of a cancellation of
contract and cause the same to be recorded.  However, the landowner
shall not be entitled to the refund of any cancellation fee paid.
  SEC. 22.  Article 7 (commencing with Section 51296) of Chapter 7 of
Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 5 of the Government Code is repealed.

  SEC. 23.  Article 7 (commencing with Section 51296) is added to
Chapter 7 of Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 5 of the Government Code,
to read:

      Article 7.  Farmland Security Zones

   51296.  The Legislature finds and declares that it is desirable to
expand options available to landowners for the preservation of
agricultural land.  It is therefore the intent of the Legislature in
enacting this article to encourage the creation of longer term
voluntary enforceable restrictions within agricultural preserves.
   51296.1.  A landowner or group of landowners may petition the
board to rescind a contract or contracts entered into pursuant to
this chapter in order to simultaneously place the land subject to
that contract or those contracts under a new contract designating the
property as a farmland security zone.  A landowner or group of
landowners may also petition the board to create a farmland security
zone for the purpose of entering into farmland security zone
contracts pursuant to this section.
   (a) Before approving the rescission of a contract or contracts
entered into pursuant to this chapter in order to simultaneously
place the land under a new farmland security zone contract, the board
shall create a farmland security zone, pursuant to the requirements
of Section 51230, within an existing agricultural preserve.
   (b) No land shall be included in a farmland security zone unless
expressly requested by the landowner.  Any land located within a city'
s sphere of influence shall not be included within a farmland
security zone, unless the creation of the farmland security zone
within the sphere of influence has been expressly approved by
resolution by the city with jurisdiction within the sphere of
influence.
   (c) If more than one landowner requests the creation of a farmland
security zone and the parcels are contiguous, the county shall place
those parcels in the same farmland security zone.
   (d) A contract entered into pursuant to this section shall be for
an initial term of no less than 20 years.  Each contract shall
provide that on the anniversary date of the contract or on another
annual date as specified by the contract, a year shall be added
automatically to the initial term unless a notice of nonrenewal is
given pursuant to Section 51245.
   (e) Upon termination of a farmland security zone contract, the
farmland security zone designation for that parcel shall
simultaneously be terminated.
   51296.2.  Both of the following shall apply to land within a
designated farmland security zone:
   (a) The land shall be eligible for property tax valuation pursuant
to Section 423.4 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
   (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any special tax
approved by the voters for urban-related services on or after January
1, 1999, on the land or any living improvement shall be levied at a
reduced rate unless the tax directly benefits the land or the living
improvements.
   51296.3.  Notwithstanding any provision of the Cortese-Knox Local
Government Reorganization Act of 1985 (Division 3 (commencing with
Section 56000)), a local agency formation commission shall not
approve a change of organization or reorganization that would result
in the annexation of land within a designated farmland security zone
to a city.  However, this subdivision shall not apply under any of
the following circumstances:
   (a) If the farmland security zone is located within a designated,
delineated area that has been approved by the voters as a limit for
existing and future urban facilities, utilities, and services.
   (b) If annexation of a parcel or a portion of a parcel is
necessary for the location of a public improvement, as defined in
Section 51290.5, except as provided in subdivision (f) or (g) of this
section.
   (c) If the landowner consents to the annexation.
   51296.4.  Notwithstanding any provision of the Cortese-Knox Local
Government Reorganization Act of 1985 (Division 3 (commencing with
Section 56000)), a local agency formation commission shall not
approve a change of organization or reorganization that would result
in the annexation of land within a designated farmland security zone
to a special district that provides sewers, nonagricultural water, or
streets and roads, unless the facilities or services provided by the
special district benefit land uses that are allowed under the
contract and the landowner consents to the change of organization or
reorganization.
   51296.5.  Notwithstanding Article 5 (commencing with Section
53090) of Chapter 1 of Division 2 of Title 5, a school district shall
not render inapplicable a county zoning ordinance to the use of land
by the school district if the land is within a designated farmland
security zone.
   51296.6.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a school
district shall not acquire any land that is within a designated
farmland security zone.
   51296.7.  The board shall not approve any use of land within a
designated farmland security zone based on the compatible use
provisions contained in subdivision (c) of Section 51238.1.
   51296.8.  Sections 51296 to 51297.4, inclusive, shall only apply
to land that is designated on the Important Farmland Series maps,
prepared pursuant to Section 65570 as predominantly one or more of
the following:
   (a) Prime farmland.
   (b) Farmland of statewide significance.
   (c) Unique farmland.
   (d) Farmland of local importance.
   If the proposed farmland security zone is in an area that is not
designated on the Important Farmland Series maps, the land shall
qualify if it is predominantly prime agricultural land, as defined in
subdivision (c) of Section 51201.
   51296.9.  Nonrenewal of a farmland security zone contract shall be
pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 51240), except as
otherwise provided in this article.
   51297.  A petition for cancellation of a farmland security zone
contract created under this article may be filed only by the
landowner with the city or county within which the contracted land is
located.  The city or county may grant a petition only in accordance
with the procedures provided for in Article 5 (commencing with
Section 51280) and only if all the following requirements are met:
   (a) The city or county shall make both of the findings specified
in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 51282, based
on substantial evidence in the record.  Subdivisions (b) to (e),
inclusive, of Section 51282 shall apply to the findings made by the
city or county.
   (b) In its resolution tentatively approving cancellation of the
contract, the city or county shall find all of the following:
   (1) That no beneficial public purpose would be served by the
continuation of the contract.
   (2) That the uneconomic nature of the agricultural use is
primarily attributable to circumstances beyond the control of the
landowner and the local government.
   (3) That the landowner has paid a cancellation fee equal to 25
percent of the cancellation valuation calculated in accordance with
subdivision (b) of Section 51283.
   (c) The Director of Conservation approves the cancellation.  The
director may approve the cancellation after reviewing the record of
the tentative cancellation provided by the city or county, only if he
or she finds both of the following:
   (1) That there is substantial evidence in the record supporting
the decision.
   (2) That no beneficial public purpose would be served by the
continuation of the contract.
   (d) A finding that no authorized use may be made of a remnant
contract parcel of five acres or less left by public acquisition
pursuant to Section 51295, may be substituted for the finding in
subdivision (a).
   51297.1.  All of the provisions of Article 6 (commencing with
Section 51290) shall apply to farmland security zones created
pursuant to this article except as specifically provided in this
article.
   51297.2.  No state agency, as defined in Section 65934, or local
agency, as defined in Section 65930, shall require any land to be
placed under a farmland security zone contract as a condition of the
issuance of any entitlement to use or the approval of a legislative
or adjudicative act involving, but not limited to, the planning, use,
or development of real property, or a change of organization or
reorganization, as defined in Section 56021 or 56073.  No contract
shall be executed as a condition of an entitlement to use issued by
an agency of the United States government.
   51297.3.  Sections 51296.3 and 51296.4 shall not apply during the
three-year period preceding the termination of a farmland security
zone contract.
   51297.4.  Nothing in Sections 51296 to 51297.4, inclusive, shall
be construed to limit the authority of a board to rescind a portion
or portions of a Williamson Act contract or contracts for the purpose
of immediately enrolling the land in a farmland security zone
contract so long as the remaining land is retained in a Williamson
Act contract and the board determines that its action would improve
the conservation of agricultural land within the county where the
rescission occurs.  The creation of multiple contracts under this
section does not constitute a subdivision of the land.
  SEC. 24.  Section 54988 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   54988.  (a) (1) In addition to any other remedy provided by law,
including the current powers of charter cities, the legislative body
of a city, county, or city and county may collect any fee, cost, or
charge incurred in (A) the abatement of public nuisances; (B) the
correction of any violation of any law or regulation that would also
be a violation of Section 1941.1 of the Civil Code; (C) the
enforcement of zoning ordinances adopted pursuant to Chapter 4
(commencing with Section 65800) of Division 1 of Title 7 or any other
constitutional or statutory authority; (D) inspections and abatement
of violations of Article 1 (commencing with Section 13100) of
Chapter 2 of Part 2 of Division 12 of the Health and Safety Code; (E)
inspections and abatement of violations of the State Housing Law,
Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 17910) of Division 13 of the Health
and Safety Code and regulations adopted pursuant thereto; (F)
inspections and abatement of violations of the California Building
Standards Code, Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations; or
(G) inspections and abatement related to local ordinances and
regulations that implement any of the foregoing, if the fee, cost, or
charge has not been paid within 45 days of notice thereof, by making
the amount of the unpaid fee, cost, or charge a proposed lien
against the property that is the subject of the enforcement activity.
  Except as provided in subdivision (c), the amount of the proposed
lien may be collected at the same time and in the same manner as
property taxes are collected.  All laws applicable to the levy,
collection, and enforcement of ad valorem taxes shall be applicable
to the proposed lien, except that if any real property to which the
lien would attach has been transferred or conveyed to a bona fide
purchaser for value, or if a lien of a bona fide encumbrancer for
value has been created and attaches thereon, prior to the date on
which the first installment of taxes would become delinquent, then
the lien that would otherwise be imposed by this section shall not
attach to real property and the costs of enforcement relating to the
property shall be transferred to the unsecured roll for collection.
   (2) The amount of any fee, cost, or charge shall not exceed the
actual cost incurred performing the inspections and enforcement
activity, including permit fees, fines, late charges, and interest.
   (3) This section shall not apply to owner-occupied residential
dwelling units.
   (4) This section does not apply to any enforcement, abatement,
correction, or inspection activity regarding a violation in which the
violation was evident on the plans that received a building permit.

   (b) (1) A city, county, or city and county shall provide the owner
of the property with written notice in plain language of the
proposed lien, a description of the basis for the amounts comprising
the lien, a minimum of 45 days after notice to pay the fee, cost, or
charge, and an opportunity to appear before the legislative body and
be heard regarding the amount of the proposed lien.  The notice shall
be mailed by certified mail to the last known address of the owner
of the property.
   (2) In any city, county, or city and county, the legislative body
may delegate the holding of the hearing required by paragraph (1) to
a hearing board designated by the legislative body.  The hearing
board may be the housing appeals board established pursuant to
Section 17920.5 of the Health and Safety Code or any other body
designated by the legislative body.  The hearing board shall make a
written recommendation to the legislative body which shall include
factual findings based on evidence introduced at the hearing.  The
legislative body may adopt the recommendation without further notice
of hearing, or may set the matter for a de novo hearing before the
legislative body.  Notice in writing of the de novo hearing shall be
provided to the property owner at least 10 days in advance of the
scheduled hearing.
   (c) If the legislative body determines that the proposed lien
authorized pursuant to subdivision (a) shall become a lien, the body
may also cause a notice of lien to be recorded.  This lien shall
attach upon recordation in the office of the county recorder of the
county in which the property is situated and shall have the same
force, priority, and effect as a judgment lien, not a tax lien.  The
notice shall, at a minimum, identify the record owner or possessor of
the property, set forth the last known address of the record owner
or possessor, set forth the date upon which the lien was created
against the property, and include a description of the real property
subject to the lien and the amount of the lien.
  SEC. 25.  Division 2 (commencing with Section 60400) of Title 6 of
the Government Code is repealed.
  SEC. 26.  Section 61737.05 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   61737.05.  (a) Bond principal and interest and salaries shall be
paid when due.  Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), all
other claims and demands shall be approved in an open meeting by a
majority of the members of the board.
   (b) Warrants drawn in payment of claims and demands approved by
the finance officer as conforming to an approved budget need not be
approved by the board prior to payment.
   (c) Claims and demands paid by warrants pursuant to subdivision
(b) shall be presented to the board for ratification and approval in
the audited comprehensive annual financial report.
  SEC. 27.  Section 65400 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   65400.  After the legislative body has adopted all or part of a
general plan, the planning agency shall do both of the following:
   (a) Investigate and make recommendations to the legislative body
regarding reasonable and practical means for implementing the general
plan or element of the general plan, so that it will serve as an
effective guide for orderly growth and development, preservation and
conservation of open-space land and natural resources, and the
efficient expenditure of public funds relating to the subjects
addressed in the general plan.
   (b) (1) Provide an annual report to the legislative body, the
Office of Planning and Research, and the Department of Housing and
Community Development on the status of the plan and progress in its
implementation, including the progress in meeting its share of
regional housing needs determined pursuant to Section 65584 and local
efforts to remove governmental constraints to the maintenance,
improvement, and development of housing pursuant to paragraph (3) of
subdivision (c) of Section 65583.
   (2) The housing portion of the annual report required to be
provided to the Office of Planning and Research and the Department of
Housing and Community Development pursuant to this subdivision shall
be prepared through the use of forms and definitions adopted by the
Department of Housing and Community Development pursuant to the
Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section
11340) of, Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 11370) of, and Chapter
5 (commencing                                              with
Section 11500) of, Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2).  This report
shall be provided to the legislative body, the Office of Planning and
Research, and the Department of Housing and Community Development on
or before October 1 of each year.
  SEC. 28.  Section 66412 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   66412.  This division shall be inapplicable to:
   (a) The financing or leasing of apartments, offices, stores, or
similar space within apartment buildings, industrial buildings,
commercial buildings, mobilehome parks, or trailer parks.
   (b) Mineral, oil, or gas leases.
   (c) Land dedicated for cemetery purposes under the Health and
Safety Code.
   (d) A lot line adjustment between two or more existing adjacent
parcels, where the land taken from one parcel is added to an adjacent
parcel, and where a greater number of parcels than originally
existed is not thereby created, provided the lot line adjustment is
approved by the local agency, or advisory agency.  A local agency or
advisory agency shall limit its review and approval to a
determination of whether or not the parcels resulting from the lot
line adjustment will conform to local zoning and building ordinances.
  An advisory agency or local agency shall not impose conditions or
exactions on its approval of a lot line adjustment except to conform
to local zoning and building ordinances, to require the prepayment of
real property taxes prior to the approval of the lot line
adjustment, or to facilitate the relocation of existing utilities,
infrastructure, or easements.  No tentative map, parcel map, or final
map shall be required as a condition to the approval of a lot line
adjustment.  The lot line adjustment shall be reflected in a deed,
which shall be recorded.  No record of survey shall be required for a
lot line adjustment unless required by Section 8762 of the Business
and Professions Code.
   (e) Boundary line or exchange agreements to which the State Lands
Commission or a local agency holding a trust grant of tide and
submerged lands is a party.
   (f) Any separate assessment under Section 2188.7 of the Revenue
and Taxation Code.
   (g) Unless a parcel or final map was approved by the legislative
body of a local agency, the conversion of a community apartment
project, as defined in Section 1351 of the Civil Code, to a
condominium, as defined in Section 783 of the Civil Code, but only if
all of the following requirements are met:
   (1) At least 75 percent of the units in the project were occupied
by record owners of the project on March 31, 1982.
   (2) A final or parcel map of the project was properly recorded, if
the property was subdivided, as defined in Section 66424, after
January 1, 1964, with all of the conditions of that map remaining in
effect after the conversion.
   (3) The local agency certifies that the above requirements were
satisfied if the local agency, by ordinance, provides for that
certification.
   (4) Subject to compliance with subdivision (e) of Section 1351 of
the Civil Code, all conveyances and other documents necessary to
effectuate the conversion shall be executed by the required number of
owners in the project as specified in the bylaws or other
organizational documents.  If the bylaws or other organizational
documents do not expressly specify the number of owners necessary to
execute the conveyances and other documents, a majority of owners in
the project shall be required to execute the conveyances or other
documents.  Conveyances and other documents executed under the
foregoing provisions shall be binding upon and affect the interests
of all parties in the project.
   (h) Unless a parcel or final map was approved by the legislative
body of a local agency, the conversion of a stock cooperative, as
defined in Section 1351 of the Civil Code, to a condominium, as
defined in Section 783 of the Civil Code, but only if all of the
following requirements are met:
   (1) At least 51 percent of the units in the cooperative were
occupied by stockholders of the cooperative on January 1, 1981, or
individually owned by stockholders of the cooperative on January 1,
1981.  As used in this paragraph, a cooperative unit is "individually
owned" if and only if the stockholder of that unit owns or partially
owns an interest in no more than one unit in the cooperative.
   (2) No more than 25 percent of the shares of the cooperative were
owned by any one person, as defined in Section 17, including an
incorporator or director of the cooperative, on January 1, 1981.
   (3) A person renting a unit in a cooperative shall be entitled at
the time of conversion to all tenant rights in state or local law,
including, but not limited to, rights respecting first refusal,
notice, and displacement and relocation benefits.
   (4) The local agency certifies that the above requirements were
satisfied if the local agency, by ordinance, provides for that
certification.
   (5) Subject to compliance with subdivision (e) of Section 1351 of
the Civil Code, all conveyances and other documents necessary to
effectuate the conversion shall be executed by the required number of
owners in the cooperative as specified in the bylaws or other
organizational documents.  If the bylaws or other organizational
documents do not expressly specify the number of owners necessary to
execute the conveyances and other documents, a majority of owners in
the cooperative shall be required to execute the conveyances or other
documents.  Conveyances and other documents executed under the
foregoing provisions shall be binding upon and affect the interests
of all parties in the cooperative.
   (i) The leasing of, or the granting of an easement to, a parcel of
land, or any portion or portions thereof, in conjunction with the
financing, erection, and sale or lease of a windpowered electrical
generation device on the land, if the project is subject to
discretionary action by the advisory agency or legislative body.
   (j) The leasing or licensing of a portion of a parcel, or the
granting of an easement, use permit, or similar right on a portion of
a parcel, to a telephone corporation as defined in Section 234 of
the Public Utilities Code, exclusively for the placement and
operation of cellular radio transmission facilities, including, but
not limited to, antennae support structures, microwave dishes,
structures to house cellular communications transmission equipment,
power sources, and other equipment incidental to the transmission of
cellular communications, if the project is subject to discretionary
action by the advisory agency or legislative body.
   (k) Leases of agricultural land for agricultural purposes.  As
used in this subdivision, "agricultural purposes" means the
cultivation of food or fiber, or the grazing or pasturing of
livestock.
  SEC. 29.  Section 66451.17 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   66451.17.  If, within the 30-day period specified in Section
66451.14, the owner does not file a request for a hearing in
accordance with Section 66451.16, the local agency may, at any time
thereafter, make a determination that the affected parcels are to be
merged or are not to be merged.  A determination of merger shall be
recorded as provided for in Section 66451.12 no later than 90 days
following the mailing of notice required by Section 66451.13.
  SEC. 30.  Section 66463.5 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   66463.5.  (a) When a tentative map is required, an approved or
conditionally approved tentative map shall expire 24 months after its
approval or conditional approval, or after any additional period of
time as may be prescribed by local ordinance, not to exceed an
additional 12 months.
   (b) The expiration of the approved or conditionally approved
tentative map shall terminate all proceedings and no parcel map of
all or any portion of the real property included within the tentative
map shall be filed without first processing a new tentative map.
Once a timely filing is made, subsequent actions of the local agency,
including, but not limited to, processing, approving, and recording,
may lawfully occur after the date of expiration of the tentative
map.  Delivery to the county surveyor or city engineer shall be
deemed a timely filing for purposes of this section.
   (c) Upon application of the subdivider filed prior to the
expiration of the approved or conditionally approved tentative map,
the time at which the map expires may be extended by the legislative
body or by an advisory agency authorized to approve or conditionally
approve tentative maps for a period or periods not exceeding a total
of five years.  Prior to the expiration of an approved or
conditionally approved tentative map, upon the application by the
subdivider to extend that map, the map shall automatically be
extended for 60 days or until the application for the extension is
approved, conditionally approved, or denied, whichever occurs first.
If the advisory agency denies a subdivider's application for an
extension, the subdivider may appeal to the legislative body within
15 days after the advisory agency has denied the extension.
   (d) (1) The period of time specified in subdivision (a) shall not
include any period of time during which a development moratorium,
imposed after approval of the tentative map, is in existence.
However, the length of the moratorium shall not exceed five years.
   (2) Once a moratorium is terminated, the map shall be valid for
the same period of time as was left to run on the map at the time
that the moratorium was imposed.  However, if the remaining time is
less than 120 days, the map shall be valid for 120 days following the
termination of the moratorium.
   (e) The period of time specified in subdivision (a), including any
extension thereof granted pursuant to subdivision (c), shall not
include the period of time during which a lawsuit involving the
approval or conditional approval of the tentative map is, or was,
pending in a court of competent jurisdiction, if the stay of the time
period is approved by the local agency pursuant to this section.
After service of the initial petition or complaint in the lawsuit
upon the local agency, the subdivider may apply to the local agency
for a stay pursuant to the local agency's adopted procedures.  Within
40 days after receiving the application, the local agency shall
either stay the time period for up to five years or deny the
requested stay.  The local agency may, by ordinance, establish
procedures for reviewing the requests, including, but not limited to,
notice and hearing requirements, appeal procedures, and other
administrative requirements.
   (f) For purposes of this section, a development moratorium shall
include a water or sewer moratorium or a water and sewer moratorium,
as well as other actions of public agencies that regulate land use,
development, or the provision of services to the land, including the
public agency with the authority to approve or conditionally approve
the tentative map, which thereafter prevents, prohibits, or delays
the approval of a parcel map.
   (g) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a), (b), and (c), for the
purposes of Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 66498.1),
subdivisions (b), (c), and (d) of Section 66498.5 shall apply to
vesting tentative maps prepared in connection with a parcel map
except that, for purposes of this section, the time periods specified
in subdivisions (b), (c), and (d) of Section 66498.5 shall be
determined from the recordation of  the parcel map instead of the
final map.
  SEC. 31.  Section 66499.19 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   66499.19.  When a reversion is effective, all fees and deposits
shall be returned to the current owner of the property and all
improvement security released, except those retained pursuant to
Section 66499.17.
  SEC. 32.  Division 36 (commencing with Section 56000) of the Health
and Safety Code is repealed.
  SEC. 33.  Section 3211.92 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   3211.92.  (a) "Disaster service worker" means any natural person
who is registered with an accredited disaster council or a state
agency for the purpose of engaging in disaster service pursuant to
the California Emergency Services Act without pay or other
consideration.
   (b) "Disaster service worker" includes public employees performing
disaster work that is outside the course and scope of their regular
employment without pay and also includes any unregistered person
impressed into service during a state of war emergency, a state of
emergency, or a local emergency by a person having authority to
command the aid of citizens in the execution of his or her duties.
   (c) Persons registered with a disaster council at the time that
council becomes accredited need not reregister in order to be
entitled to the benefits provided by Chapter 10 (commencing with
Section 4351).
   (d) "Disaster service worker" does not include any member
registered as an active firefighting member of any regularly
organized volunteer fire department, having official recognition, and
full or partial support of the county, city, or district in which
the fire department is located.
  SEC. 34.  Section 3211.93a of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   3211.93a.  "Disaster service" does not include any activities or
functions performed by a person if the accredited disaster council
with which that person is registered receives a fee or other
compensation for the performance of those activities or functions by
that person.
  SEC. 35.  Section 26593 of the Public Resources Code is amended to
read:
   26593.  A district may borrow money from or otherwise incur an
indebtedness to a local agency, the state, any instrumentality or
political subdivision thereof, the federal government, or any private
source, and may comply with any conditions imposed upon the
incurring of that indebtedness.
  SEC. 36.  Section 21670 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to
read:
   21670.  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that:
   (1) It is in the public interest to provide for the orderly
development of each public use airport in this state and the area
surrounding these airports so as to promote the overall goals and
objectives of the California airport noise standards adopted pursuant
to Section 21669 and to prevent the creation of new noise and safety
problems.
   (2) It is the purpose of this article to protect public health,
safety, and welfare by ensuring the orderly expansion of airports and
the adoption of land use measures that minimize the public's
exposure to excessive noise and safety hazards within areas around
public airports to the extent that these areas are not already
devoted to incompatible uses.
   (b) In order to achieve the purposes of this article, every county
in which there is located an airport which is served by a scheduled
airline shall establish an airport land use commission.  Every
county, in which there is located an airport which is not served by a
scheduled airline, but is operated for the benefit of the general
public, shall establish an airport land use commission, except that
the board of supervisors of the county may, after consultation with
the appropriate airport operators and affected local entities and
after a public hearing, adopt a resolution finding that there are no
noise, public safety, or land use issues affecting any airport in the
county which require the creation of a commission and declaring the
county exempt from that requirement.  The board shall, in this event,
transmit a copy of the resolution to the Director of Transportation.
  For purposes of this section, "commission" means an airport land
use commission.  Each commission shall consist of seven members to be
selected as follows:
   (1) Two representing the cities in the county, appointed by a city
selection committee comprised of the mayors of all the cities within
that county, except that if there are any cities contiguous or
adjacent to the qualifying airport, at least one representative shall
be appointed therefrom.  If there are no cities within a county, the
number of representatives provided for by paragraphs (2) and (3)
shall each be increased by one.
   (2) Two representing the county, appointed by the board of
supervisors.
   (3) Two having expertise in aviation, appointed by a selection
committee comprised of the managers of all of the public airports
within that county.
   (4) One representing the general public, appointed by the other
six members of the commission.
   (c) Public officers, whether elected or appointed, may be
appointed and serve as members of the commission during their terms
of public office.
   (d) Each member shall promptly appoint a single proxy to represent
him or her in commission affairs and to vote on all matters when the
member is not in attendance.  The proxy shall be designated in a
signed written instrument which shall be kept on file at the
commission offices, and the proxy shall serve at the pleasure of the
appointing member.  A vacancy in the office of proxy shall be filled
promptly by appointment of a new proxy.
   (e) A person having an "expertise in aviation" means a person who,
by way of education, training, business, experience, vocation, or
avocation has acquired and possesses particular knowledge of, and
familiarity with, the function, operation, and role of airports, or
is an elected official of a local agency which owns or operates an
airport.
   (f) It is the intent of the Legislature to clarify that, for the
purposes of this article, special districts are included among the
local agencies that are subject to airport land use laws and other
requirements of this article.
  SEC. 37.  Section 10 of the County Water Authority Act (Chapter 545
of the Statutes of 1943), as amended by Section 66 of Chapter 829 of
the Statutes of 1998, is amended to read:
  Sec. 10.  (a) For the purposes of this section, the following
definitions apply to the terms used:  the term "city" means and
includes any municipal corporation or municipality of the State of
California, whether organized under a freeholder's charter or under
the provisions of general law of the type and class of cities and
incorporated towns; and the term "water district" means and includes
any municipal water district, municipal utility district, public
utility district, county water district, irrigation district, or any
other public corporation or agency of the State of California of
similar character.
   (b) Territory may be annexed to any county water authority
organized under this act by one of the following methods:
   (1) By annexation to, or consolidation with, the area of any city,
the area of which, as a separate unit, has become a part of any
county water authority organized under this act, the annexation or
consolidation to occur upon compliance with the provisions of law
governing the annexation to, or consolidation with, the area of the
city.  Upon completion of the annexation to, or consolidation with,
the city in compliance with the provisions of law applicable thereto,
the territory shall become, and be, a part of the county water
authority, and the taxable property therein shall be subject to
taxation thereafter for the purposes of the county water authority,
including the payment of bonds and other obligations of the authority
at the time authorized or outstanding.
   (2) By annexation to, or consolidation with, any city which, as a
separate unit, has become a part of any water district whose area, as
a separate unit, has become a part of any county water authority
organized under this act, in instances where, under the applicable
provisions of law governing the change of boundaries of the water
district, the annexation or consolidation automatically will result
in the enlargement of the area of the water district, the annexation
or consolidation to occur upon compliance with the provisions of law
governing the annexation to, or consolidation with, the area of the
city.  Upon completion of the annexation to, or consolidation with,
the city in compliance with the provisions of law applicable thereto,
the territory shall become, and be, a part of the water district and
of the county water authority, and the taxable property therein
shall be subject to taxation thereafter for the purposes of the water
district and of the county water authority, including payment of
bonds and other obligations of the water district and of the county
water authority at the time authorized or outstanding.  If any
territory has been so annexed to, or consolidated with, any city
prior to the effective date of this paragraph, under conditions which
would have resulted in the enlargement of the area of the county
water authority had this paragraph then been in effect, upon
compliance with the following provisions of this paragraph, the
territory shall be annexed to, and shall become and be part of, the
county water authority and shall be a part of the water district for
all purposes, the last-mentioned provisions being as follows:
   (A) The governing body of the city, at any time after the
effective date of this paragraph, may adopt an ordinance which, after
reciting that the territory has been annexed to, or consolidated
with, the city by proceedings previously taken under statutory
authority, and after referring to the applicable statutes and to the
date and place of filing of the certificate or certificates
evidencing the annexation or consolidation, shall describe the
territory and shall determine and declare that the territory shall
be, and thereby is, annexed to the county water authority, and the
ordinance shall further determine and declare that the territory
shall become and be, and thereby is, a part of the county water
authority, and shall be, and thereby is, a part of the water district
for all purposes.
   (B) The governing body, or clerk thereof, of the city shall file a
certified copy of the ordinance with the county clerk of the county
in which the county water authority is situated.  Upon the filing of
the certified copy of the ordinance in the office of the county clerk
of the county in which the county water authority is situated, the
territory shall become, and be, a part of the county water authority
and shall be a part of the water district for all purposes, and the
taxable property therein shall be subject to taxation thereafter for
the purposes of the county water authority and of the water district,
including the payment of bonds and other obligations of the county
water authority at the time authorized or outstanding.
   (C) Upon the filing of the certified copy of the ordinance, the
county clerk of the county in which the county water authority is
situated shall, within 10 days, issue a certificate, describing the
territory, reciting the filing of the certified copy of the ordinance
and the annexation of the territory to the county water authority,
and declaring that the territory is a part of the county water
authority and of the water district.  The county clerk of the county
in which the county water authority is situated shall transmit the
original of the certificate to the secretary of the county water
authority and a duplicate of the original certificate to the clerk of
the governing body of the water district.
   (3) Upon terms and conditions fixed by the board of directors of
the county water authority and in the manner provided in subdivision
(c), by direct annexation, as a separate unit, of the corporate area
of any water district or city.
   (4) Upon terms and conditions fixed by the board of directors of
the county water authority and in the manner provided in subdivision
(d), by annexation to, or consolidation with, any water district, the
area of which, in whole or in part, is included within the county
water authority as a separate unit; provided that, unless the
territory is so annexed to the county water authority with the
consent of the board of directors, the annexation of territory to, or
the consolidation of the territory with, the water district does not
authorize or entitle the water district or the territory to demand
or receive any water from the county water authority for use in the
territory; and provided further, that, except where automatic
annexation results under the conditions specified in paragraph (2),
nothing in this act prevents the annexation of territory to, or the
consolidation of territory with, any water district for its local
purposes only and without annexing their territory to the county
water authority, and the local annexation or consolidation may occur
without requesting or obtaining the consent thereto of the board of
directors of the county water authority.
   (c) The governing body of any water district or city may apply to
the board of directors of the county water authority for consent to
annex the corporate area of the water district or city to the county
water authority.  The board of directors may grant or deny the
application and, in granting the application, may fix the terms and
conditions upon which the corporate area of the water district or
city may be annexed to, and become a part of, the county water
authority.  These terms and conditions may provide, among other
things, for the levy by the county water authority of special taxes
upon taxable property within the water district or city, in addition
to the taxes authorized to be levied by the county water authority by
other provisions of this act.  In case these terms and conditions
provide for the levy of these special taxes, the board of directors,
in fixing these terms and conditions, shall specify the aggregate
amount to be so raised and the number of years prescribed for raising
the aggregate sum, and that substantially equal annual levies will
be made for the purpose of raising the sum over the period so
prescribed.  The action of the board of directors, evidenced by
resolution, shall be promptly transmitted to the governing body of
the applying water district or city and, if the action grants consent
to the annexation, the governing body may thereupon submit, to the
qualified electors of the water district or city at any general or
special election held therein, the proposition of the annexation
subject to the terms and conditions.  Notice of the election shall be
mailed to each voter qualified to vote at the election and shall be
given by posting or publication.  When notice is given by posting,
the notices shall be posted at least 10 days and in three public
places in the water district or city.  When notice is given by
publication, the notice shall be published in the water district or
city pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code, at least 10
days before the date fixed for the election.  The notice shall
contain the substance of the
   terms and conditions fixed by the board of directors.  The
election shall be conducted and the returns thereof canvassed in the
manner provided by law for elections in the water district or city.
If the proposition receives the affirmative vote of a majority of
electors of the water district or city voting thereon at the
election, the governing body of the water district or city shall
certify the result of the election on the proposition to the board of
directors of the county water authority, together with a legal
description of the boundaries of the corporate area of the water
district or city, accompanied by a map or plat indicating those
boundaries.  A certificate of proceedings shall be made by the
secretary of the county water authority and filed with the county
clerk of the county in which the county water authority is situated.
Upon the filing thereof in the office of the county clerk of the
county in which the county water authority is situated, the corporate
area of the water district or city shall become, and be, an integral
part of the county water authority, and the taxable property therein
shall be subject to taxation thereafter for the purposes of the
county water authority, including the payment of bonds and other
obligations of the county water authority at the time authorized or
outstanding, and the board of directors of the county water authority
may do all things necessary to enforce and make effective the terms
and conditions of annexation fixed as authorized.  Upon the filing of
the certificate of proceedings, the county clerk of the county in
which the county water authority is situated shall, within 10 days,
issue a certificate, reciting the filing of the papers and the
annexation of the corporate area of the water district or city to the
county water authority.  The county clerk of the county in which the
county water authority is situated shall transmit the original of
the certificate to the secretary of the county water authority.
   (1) If a water district applies to a county water authority for
consent to annex its corporate area, as a separate unit, the water
district shall include as a part of its corporate area the corporate
areas of any cities (whether one or more) which are already included
within the county water authority as separate units, or the water
district shall include as a part of its corporate area the corporate
areas, or portion thereof, already included within the county water
authority, of any water districts (whether one or more) whose
corporate areas, in whole or in part, are already included within the
county water authority as separate units.  That fact shall be taken
into consideration by the board of directors of the county water
authority in fixing the terms and conditions upon which the applying
water district may be annexed to the county water authority, to the
end that the areas within the unit member cities or water districts
which are already a part of the county water authority, shall not be
required to assume any greater financial burden or obligation to the
county water authority than they would have had if they had remained
a part of the county water authority as separate units.
   Concurrently with any election called by an applying water
district to submit to the qualified electors of the water district
the question of whether the terms and conditions fixed by the board
of directors of the county water authority for annexation shall be
approved, the governing bodies of the unit member cities or water
districts may call and hold elections within their respective
corporate limits or portions thereof already included within the
county water authority, to determine whether or not the cities or
water districts shall withdraw from the county water authority as
separate units, and the proposed withdrawal may be made and submitted
conditioned upon and effective when the applying water district has
finally been annexed to the county water authority.
   The effect of the concurrent elections, if a majority of the
electors of the applying water district voting thereat vote in favor
of annexation, and a majority of the electors of the unit member
cities or water districts voting thereat vote in favor of
withdrawing, shall be that the annexing water district thereafter
shall be authorized to exercise the privileges and to discharge the
duties prescribed in this act for public agencies whose areas, as
separate units, are included within the county water authority, in
place of and instead of the cities or water districts so withdrawing.
  Notwithstanding Section 11 of this act, the areas within the
withdrawing cities or water districts shall remain a part of the
county water authority and shall not be excluded therefrom,
notwithstanding the fact that the cities or water districts, as
corporate entities, have withdrawn from the authority.
   If the water district does annex to the county water authority,
the directors representing the withdrawing cities or water districts
on the board of directors of the county water authority shall
continue to act until their successors have been chosen and
designated by the appropriate officers of the annexing water district
and have qualified as members of the board of directors of the
county water authority, after which time the directors representing
the withdrawing cities or water districts shall no longer sit or vote
on the board.
   (2) If a water district applies to a county water authority for
consent to annex its corporate area as a separate unit, the water
district shall include as a part of its corporate area lands which
are in public ownership exempt from taxation by a county water
authority, and not within or adjacent to the area within the water
district served with water by the district, and which are not to be
supplied by the water district with water obtained from, and by
reason of, its annexation to the county water authority.  That fact
may be taken into consideration by the board of directors of the
county water authority in fixing the terms and conditions upon which
the water district may be annexed to the county water authority and
in determining the boundaries of the area to be annexed, and the
county water authority may, in the discretion of its board of
directors, annex all of the corporate area of the water district as a
separate unit excepting that portion consisting of the publicly
owned and tax-exempt lands.
   (d) The governing body of any water district, the area of which,
in whole or in part, is included within a county water authority as a
separate unit, may apply to the board of directors of the county
water authority for consent to annex to the county water authority
territory which the water district seeks to annex to, or consolidate
with, the water district, or territory which, without making the
territory a part of the county water authority, already has been
annexed to, or consolidated with, the water district.  The board of
directors may grant or deny the application and, in granting the
application, may fix the terms and conditions upon which the
territory may be annexed to, and become a part of, the county water
authority.  The terms and conditions may provide, among other things,
for the levy by the county water authority of special taxes upon
taxable property within the territory in addition to the taxes
authorized to be levied by the county water authority by other
provisions of this act.  In case the terms and conditions provide for
the levy of those special taxes, the board of directors, in fixing
those terms and conditions, shall specify the aggregate amount to be
so raised and the number of years prescribed for raising that
aggregate sum and that substantially equal annual levies will be made
for the purpose of raising that sum over the period so prescribed.
The action of the board of directors evidenced by resolution shall be
promptly transmitted to the governing body of the applying water
district and to the executive officer of the local agency formation
commission of the county in which the county water authority is
situated, who may defer the issuance of a certificate of filing until
receipt of that resolution, and if the action grants consent to the
annexation, the territory may be annexed to the county water
authority as provided in paragraph (1) or (2).
   (1) If the territory has not been previously annexed to, or
consolidated with, the water district, upon completion of the
annexation to, or consolidation with, the water district in
compliance with the provisions of law applicable thereto, including
this section, the territory shall become and be a part of the county
water authority and the taxable property therein shall be subject to
taxation thereafter for the purposes of the county water authority,
including the payment of bonds and other obligations of the county
water authority at the time authorized or outstanding, and the board
of directors of the county water authority may do all things
necessary to enforce and make effective the terms and conditions of
annexation fixed; provided that, if the applicable provisions of law
governing the annexation to, or consolidation with, the water
district require any notice of any election called for the purpose of
determining whether the proposed annexation or consolidation shall
occur, or shall require any notice of hearing or other notice to be
given to the residents or electors of, or owners of property in, the
territory, the notice shall contain the substance of the terms and
conditions of annexation to the county water authority fixed by the
board of directors of the county water authority; and provided
further, that the local agency formation commission shall require
that the annexation to the water district be subject to the terms and
conditions fixed by the board of directors of the county water
authority in addition to any other terms and conditions that may be
required by the commission; and provided further, that the executive
officer of the local agency formation commission having the duty of
preparing, executing, and filing a certificate of completion
resulting in the annexation to, or consolidation with, the water
district, pursuant to the provisions of law applicable thereto, shall
include in the certificate of completion the terms and conditions
fixed by the board of directors of the county water authority in
accordance with the provisions of this act, and shall file a
duplicate of the certificate with the board of directors of the
county water authority.
   (2) If the territory sought to be annexed to a county water
authority has been previously annexed to, or consolidated with, the
water district, the governing body of the water district, upon being
advised of the action of the board of directors of the county water
authority, and if the action grants consent to the annexation, may
submit to the qualified electors of the territory, if the territory
has 12 or more registered voters, at any general or special election
held therein, the proposition of the annexation to the county water
authority subject to the terms and conditions fixed by the board of
directors of the county water authority.  Notice of the election
shall be given by publication.  When the notice is given by posting,
the notice shall be posted at least 10 days and in three public
places in the territory.  When the notice is given by publication,
the notice shall be published in the water district pursuant to
Section 6061 of the Government Code at least 10 days before the date
fixed for the election.  The notice shall contain the substance of
the terms and conditions fixed by the board of directors.  The
election shall be conducted and the returns thereof canvassed by the
governing body of the water district in the manner provided by law
for elections in the water district.  If the proposition receives the
affirmative vote of a majority of electors of the territory voting
thereon at the election, the governing body of the water district
shall certify the result of the election on the proposition to the
board of directors of the county water authority.  If the territory
has less than 12 registered voters, no election shall be required,
and, following written notice to each owner of property shown on the
last equalized assessment roll and the holding of a hearing not less
than 10 days after that notice, the annexation may be approved upon
the written consent of the owners of more than 50 percent of the
assessed valuation of the territory.  A certificate of proceedings
shall be made by the secretary of the county water authority and
filed with the county clerk of the county in which the county water
authority is situated.  Upon the filing thereof in the office of the
county clerk of the county in which the county water authority is
situated, the territory shall become, and be, a part of the county
water authority, and the taxable property therein shall be subject to
taxation thereafter for the purposes of the county water authority,
including the payment of bonds and other obligations of the county
water authority at the time authorized or outstanding, and the board
of directors of the county water authority may do all things
necessary to enforce and make effective the terms and conditions of
annexation of the territory to the county water authority fixed by
its board of directors.  Upon the filing of the certificate of
proceedings, the county clerk of the county in which the county water
authority is situated shall, within 10 days, issue a certificate
reciting the filing of the papers and the annexation of the territory
to the county water authority.  The county clerk of the county in
which the county water authority is situated shall transmit the
original of the certificate to the secretary of the county water
authority.
   (e) Should the corporate area, or all portions thereof already
included within a county water authority, of any water district or
city, the corporate area of which, in whole or in part, already is
included within the county water authority as a separate unit, annex
to a water district or city the corporate area of which, in whole or
in part, already is a part of the county water authority as a
separate unit, upon the completion of the annexation pursuant to the
law pertaining thereto, the water district or city, the corporate
area (or portions thereof) of which is so annexed, shall
automatically cease to be a separate unit member of the county water
authority, but the corporate area (or portions thereof) shall remain
a part of the county water authority as a part of the unit member
water district or city to which it was annexed.  The executive
officer of the local agency formation commission having the duty of
preparing, executing, and filing the certificate of completion shall
file, in addition to any other filings that may be required by law, a
duplicate of the certificate with the board of directors of the
county water authority.
   Should any water district or city, the corporate area of which, in
whole or in part, already is included within a county water
authority as a separate unit, consolidate with a water district or
city the corporate area of which, in whole or in part, already is a
part of the county water authority as a separate unit, under the
provisions of any law by the terms of which, after consolidation, a
new district or city will result and the former water districts or
cities participating in the consolidation shall no longer exist, the
resulting new water district or city shall be substituted for the
water districts or cities whose corporate existence has been
terminated by the consolidation as a unit member of the county water
authority, and the corporate areas (or portions thereof) of the
former water district or cities shall remain a part of the county
water authority as a part of the consolidation.  The executive
officer of the local agency formation commission having the duty of
preparing, executing, and filing a certificate of completion shall
file, in addition to any other filings that may be required by law, a
duplicate of the certificate with the board of directors of the
county water authority.
   (f) The validity of any proceedings for the annexation to any
county water authority organized under this act, of the corporate
area of a water district or city as a separate unit, or of territory
annexed to, or consolidated with, a water district or city which, as
a unit, has been included within a county water authority, shall not
be contested in any action unless the action has been brought within
three months after the completion of the annexation or, in case the
annexation is completed prior to the time that this subdivision takes
effect, then within three months after this subdivision became
effective.
   (g) Whenever territory is annexed to or consolidated with any
water district, the corporate area of which, as a unit, has become a
part of any county water authority organized under this act,
regardless of whether the territory is annexed to and becomes a part
of the county water authority, or whenever territory is annexed to
any city under the conditions specified in paragraph (1) or (2) of
subdivision (b), or whenever territory previously annexed to any city
is annexed to the county water authority under the conditions
specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b), the governing or
legislative body, or clerk thereof, of the water district or city,
shall file with the board of directors of the county water authority
a statement of the change of boundaries of the water district or
city, setting forth the legal description of the boundaries of the
water district or city, as so changed, and of the part thereof within
the county water authority, which statement shall be accompanied by
a map or plat indicating those boundaries.
   (h) The inclusion in a county water authority of the corporate
area, in whole or in part, of any municipal water district, municipal
utility district, public utility district, county water district,
irrigation district, or other public corporation or agency of the
state of similar character, referred to in Section 2, shall not
destroy the identity or legal existence or impair the powers of any
municipal water district, municipal utility district, public utility
district, county water district, irrigation district, or other public
corporation or agency of the state of similar character,
notwithstanding the identity of purpose or substantial identity of
purpose of the county water authority.
   (i) In determining the number of members of the board of directors
of a county water authority organized under this act from the
component public agencies, the corporate areas of which, in whole or
in part, are included as units within the county water authority,
there shall be considered only the assessed valuation of the property
taxable for county water authority purposes lying in the public
agencies and in the county water authority.  The directors shall be
appointed by the chief executive officers, with the consent and
approval of the governing bodies, of the component public agencies,
respectively, without regard to whether the chief executive officers
or members of the governing bodies have been chosen from, or
represent, areas of their respective public agencies which lie
outside of the county water authority.  The phrase "any water
district, the corporate area of which is included within the county
water authority" and the phrase "each city, the area of which shall
be a part of any county water authority incorporated under this act,"
and like phrases, used elsewhere in this act, shall be deemed to
mean and refer to any water district or city, the corporate area of
which, either in whole or in part, is included within the county
water authority, but the duties and obligations of the county water
authority shall extend only to that part of the corporate area of the
water district or city that lies within the county water authority.
As to the water district, city, or public agency, the corporate area
of which lies partly within and partly without the county water
authority, the word "therein" and the phrase "within the city" and
like words and phrases, used elsewhere in this act, shall be deemed
to mean and refer to that part of the corporate area of the water
district, city, or public agency which lies within the county water
authority.  The charges for water supplied by the county water
authority to any component public agency, pursuant to its request,
shall be and become an obligation of the public agency, regardless of
whether the entire corporate area of the public agency is included
within the county water authority, and the county water authority, in
administrative and contractual matters, shall deal with the chief
executive officers and governing bodies and other proper officials of
the component public agencies as chosen or constituted under
applicable laws governing the respective public agencies.
  SEC. 38.  Section 10.2 of the County Water Authority Act (Chapter
545 of the Statutes of 1943), as amended by Section 67 of Chapter 829
of the Statutes of 1998, is amended to read:
  Sec. 10.2.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this act,
territory within a federal military reservation may be annexed to any
county water authority organized hereunder as a single member of an
authority in the manner provided in this section.  As used in this
section, "federal military reservation" or "military reservation"
means a single federal military reservation or separate but
contiguous federal military reservations which are jointly annexed to
a county water authority as a single member agency of an authority.

   (b) Proceedings for the annexation of a military reservation shall
be initiated by the adoption by the board of directors of an
authority of a resolution proposing annexation of a military
reservation to an authority as a member of an authority.
   (c) The resolution proposing the annexation may provide that the
annexation shall include one or more separate areas, which may be
separately identified for assessing and tax collecting purposes, and
that each such area may be subject to one or more of the following
terms and conditions:
   (1) The fixing and establishment of priorities for the use of, or
right to use, water, or capacity rights in any public improvement or
facilities, and the determination of, or limitation on, the quantity
of, the purposes for which, and the places where, water may be
delivered by the authority to the military reservation for military
purposes and uses incidental thereto, as well as for nonmilitary
purposes.
   (2) The levying by the authority of special taxes upon any private
leasehold, possessory interest or other taxable property within the
territory annexed, and the imposition and collection of special fees
or charges prior to the annexation.
   (3) Should portions of any area annexed hereunder be subsequently
made available for nonmilitary purposes not in existence at the time
of the annexation of the area, the board of directors of the
authority may impose new terms and conditions for any subsequent
service of water, directly or indirectly, by the authority to that
area, including the separation of such an area for assessing and tax
collecting purposes and the levying by the authority of special taxes
on those portions.
   (4) The effective date of the annexation.
   (5) Any other matters necessary or incidental to any of the
foregoing.
   (d) A certified copy of the resolution proposing annexation shall
be sent to the official in authority over the military reservation.
If the military reservation consents in writing to the annexation and
to the terms and conditions established by the board of directors,
the board may, by resolution, order the annexation to the authority
of the territory situated within the military reservation, subject to
said terms and conditions.
   (e) A certificate of proceedings taken hereunder shall be made by
the secretary of the authority and filed with the county clerk of the
county in which the county water authority is situated.  Upon the
filing in his or her office of the certificate of proceedings, the
county clerk of the county in which the county water authority is
situated shall, within 10 days, issue a certificate reciting the
filing of those papers in his or her office and the annexation of the
territory to the authority.  The county clerk of the county in which
the county water authority is situated shall transmit the original
of said certificate to the secretary of the authority.
   (f) Upon the filing of the certificate of proceedings with the
county clerk of the county in which the county water authority is
situated, or upon the effective date of the annexation provided for
in the terms and conditions, whichever is later, the territory within
the military reservation shall become and be an integral part of the
authority, and the taxable property therein shall be subject to
taxation thereafter for the purposes of said authority, including the
payment of bonds and other obligations of the authority at the time
authorized or outstanding, and the board of directors of the
authority shall be empowered to do all things necessary to enforce
and make effective the terms and conditions of annexation fixed as
hereinabove authorized.
   (g) On and after the effective date of the annexation, the
military reservation shall be a separate unit member of the authority
and shall be entitled to one representative on the board of
directors of the authority.  For the purposes of this act, a military
reservation shall be deemed a public agency.  The representative
shall be designated and appointed by the official in authority over
the military reservation, shall hold office for a term of six years
or until his or her successor is appointed and qualified, and may be
recalled by that official.
   (h) The transfer of ownership of the fee title of a military
reservation, or of any portion thereof, to nonmilitary ownership
after annexation to the authority pursuant to this section shall
result in the automatic exclusion from the authority of the territory
transferred to that ownership.
   (i) If a county water authority is a member public agency of a
metropolitan water district organized under the Metropolitan Water
District Act (Chapter 200 of the Statutes of 1969), that metropolitan
water district may impose any or all of the terms and conditions
that may be imposed by a county water authority pursuant to
subdivisions (a) through (h) of this section in any resolution fixing
the terms and conditions for the concurrent annexation of territory
in a military reservation.
  SEC. 39.  Section 901 of the Pajaro River Watershed Flood
Prevention Authority Act (Chapter 963 of the Statutes of 1999), is
repealed.
                                                 SEC. 40.  (a) The
County of Riverside and the legislative body of Community Facilities
District No. 89-5 of the County of Riverside may transfer the
governance of that district to the Rancho California Water District
consistent with Article 6 (commencing with Section 53368) of Chapter
2.5 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code.
   (b) For the purposes of this section, "city," as defined in
Section 53368 of the Government Code, shall include the Rancho
California Water District.
   (c) In enacting this section, the Legislature finds and declares
that a special law is necessary and that a general law cannot be made
applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the
California Constitution because of the unique geographical and fiscal
circumstances involving Community Facilities District No. 89-5 of
the County of Riverside.
